Question

@jim_thompson5910 I have 2 questions could you help me?

Answer 1

any ideas?

Answer 2

or were you not able to get started?

Answer 3

I wsn't able to get started I was fine until I got to these two

Answer 4

are you familiar with the terms mean, median, mode?

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

how do you find the mean?

Answer 7

Add all numbers up then divide by amount of numbers given

Answer 8

yes, is that possible here?

Answer 9

for the first problem no

Answer 10

because you can't add colors (addition is only defined for numbers)

Answer 11

is the answer mode red

Answer 12

most often = mode

Answer 13

yes because you also can't find the median either

Answer 14

Okay on the second ne what do they mean by outlier

Answer 15

an outlier is some data value that is all by itself compared to the rest of the data

the rest of the data points usually group around each other

Answer 16

umm okayy I don't really get it

Answer 17

How do I find it?

Answer 18

here's an example

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/OutlierScatterplot_1000.gif

in that image, all the points follow a certain pattern (more or less) along that line. There is one outlier that is not part of the group

Answer 19

anyways, what is the smallest value?

Answer 20

of that list you're given

Answer 21

31

Answer 22

do I have to find the median and then divide agin by the number of data values

Answer 23

no there is a smaller value

Answer 24

oh 20

Answer 25

what is the mean of the whole list of numbers?

Answer 26

33

Answer 27

Oh okay I think I got it B. 20 lowers it

Answer 28

yes it lowers it by 1.9

outliers on the left lower the mean, outliers on the right increase the mean

Answer 29

Yess I had missed the 20 I had originally thought 31 was the smallest value that's what messed me up

Answer 30

Thank you agian

Answer 31

np